Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: After Man : A Zoology of the Future by Dougal Dixon ISBN: 0-312-19433-1 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.77 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best "future evolution" book next to TFIW!!!
Comment: This Dougal Dixon guy knows his stuff. I really enjoyed this book because the creatures in it could easily evolve alongside the ones from "The Future is Wild." Sure, they may look like Pokemon, but there'd be no reason or method for most Pokemon to actually evolve. These creatures actually *could* very well exist one day, if the Earth changes the way science predicts it will. There really isn't much to say except: 1) Good pictures, lousy cursive captions. They're tiny and hard to read. 2) IT'S A GOOD BOOK! You should read it.
Now, to comment on some of the animals depicted within its pages.
---In the future, I might want to get reincarnated as a Rabbuck. These tall giraffe/deer/rabbit cross-looking things are cool, especially the Arctic one, which looks like some kind of llama mixed with a sheepdog and an Afghan hound.
---The Falanx is a brutal predator with the legs of a hound dog and the body of a very large weasel.
---The reedstilt, seen on the cover, is one fantastically imagined animal: using its thin legs to stand in the water and fish, it catches prey by pretending its legs are simply reeds. An interesting body with many extra neck vertebrae make this one of my favorites in the book.
---Hornheads are moose/mammoth looking creatures with large bony growths on their heads.
---The pamthret looks like a pine marten or some other creature from that family, mixed with a lion.
---The chiselhead is a bizarre squirrel with enormous teeth and jaws.
---My favorite animal in "After Man" is the Shurrack, which strikes me as a cheetah crossed with a Scottish Deerhound. Its thin legs, long striped tail, leopard pattern, and short, bristly grey coat give it a super-cool look. Reincarnate me as a Shurrack, if you please!
---But *whatever* you do, don't bring me back as a Desert Leaper! These kangaroos look disgusting both when their bodies are bloated with fat, and then when it fluctuates and they become emaciated, with wrinkly folds of skin all over...and they do NOT look like cute little Shar Peis or Sphynx cats!
---Horranes are weird; they have the head of a gorilla on the tiger-striped body of a cheetah. Try to imagine this. *nuumm*
---The Striger looks like something out of T.S. Eliot's Book of Practical Cats.
---Khiffahs look like the Warner Brother's interpretation of the Tasmanian Devil with blue chests.
---Okay, NEVER EVER EVER do I wish to reincarnate as a Slobber! This aptly named "sloth of the future" is truly a vile imaginary creature.
---The Gurrath is another cheetah-looking thing, but it's not the coolest form the cheetah will take on in the future (go Shurrack! That honor rests with you, buddy!)
---Wakkas look like two-legged giraffes. They also remind me of something out of a Salvador Dali painting.
---The Flooer disguises itself as a flower but is still ugly with those beady little eyes and teeth. On the other hand, the Night Stalker is just plain hideous, looking like a monstrous explosion of other random animal parts thrown together. With a face not even a mother could love and a pair of "legs" that look like arms, this has more of a Pokemon appearance than anything else in "After Man."
---If I get reincarnated as every other animal in this book, please let there be one that I NEVER become, and I must save this for last because it is so revolting. The poor, miserable creature that is (or will be, rather) the Cleft Back Antelope is truly something to pity. First of all, their vertebrae have large "clefts" that grow upwards and form a "nest" along their backs for birds to lay eggs in. If I were a Cleft Back Antelope, I'd say, "Forget you, birds!" and shake the eggs from my back, then try to remove those ugly protrusions. Symbiosis, whatever. It's just too unsightly. But that's not even so bad when you consider this: They grow warts on their bodies that ooze pus. Flies lay their eggs in the pus. The baby birds hatch on the backs and eat the fly eggs. Can you imagine all this happening on the poor Antelope?!
"After Man" is a great book.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books ever
Comment: This is an excelent book. I've only had this book for a day now and I love it. It has pitures on every page and goes into great detail on each animal. Some of the creatures in this book look fake, but when he starts to describe them, they seem real. One of the many animals in this book is the striger. It's a monkey like cat. It evolved to be like the monkeys it hunts. It's long ape like arms and legs, and it's long skinny body make it the perfect preditor of the trees.
Other animals in this book are llama like rabbits, killer walking bats, and giant swimming penguins. each one adapting to a new way of life. This book is so simple to understand, that young childern could read it. This is one of Dixons best pieces of work. I also recomend you to read "The Future is Wild" and "The Wild World of the Future", also by Dougal Dixon.
Rating: 5
Summary: Almost like a science book...
Comment: What would happen if mankind disappeared and the animals of Earth went back to following the rules of evolution? This book will show you. Each part of the book deals with another region of the Earth; deserts, glasslands, polar regions and so on. See meat-eating predators evolved from rats and bats, large grazers and browsers developed from fast breeding rabbits and the sea going creatures descended from penguins.
Like the book 'Man After Man', the book starts off with science chapters that in this case do their best to explain evolution, the food chain and the history of life on Earth.
Unlike 'Man After Man' it is not set up like a story, but a true non-fiction text book, like one you might have in a class room or while out camping. It also has maps and gives you information on the environments and what changes have happened to the Earth during the 50 million years. With just over 120 pages and full of color pictures, I wish there had been more! 'Man After Man' felt longer because it had more text and less pictures.
 |
Title: The Future is Wild by Dougal Dixon, John Adams ISBN: 1552977234 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
 |
Title: Future Evolution by Peter Ward ISBN: 0716734966 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
 |
Title: The Wild World of the Future by Claire Pye, John Adams, Dougal Dixon, Mel Pickering, Peter Bull Art Studio Ill ISBN: 1552977250 Publisher: Firefly Books (J) Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
 |
Title: Man After Man: An Anthropology of the Future by Dougal Dixon, Philip Hood ISBN: 0312035608 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
 |
Title: Extraterrestrials: A Field Guide for Earthlings by Terence Dickinson, Adolf Schaller ISBN: 0921820879 Publisher: Camden House Pub Pub. Date: October, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
